And the fact you do all your design work in Fireworks as opposed to Illustrator or Photoshop makes me feel just a bit vindicated. I work for a Web design, development company and all around me are Photoshop fanatics. Thankfully, as marketing director I don't have to do much in the way of design, which is good considering how I'd be made to feel shame by my cohorts. So, thank you! Great work!

Liz
writes on 8/7/08

I like your schema although I'm a bigger fan of Twitter than you seem to be. You really capture the sensibility of the summer of 2008 though much more aptly than through words.

LOLz, nice one Matthew, you have good sense of humor.I read couple of other posts and they were quite interestingI liked your website. Cool yet simple design.BTW, I was wondering if you read novels.If yes, try Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.Interesting read.~S

Great work. Also loved your post about how you made mingle2 in just 66.5 hours, very impressive. It motivated me to work on this project that I had on the side more seriously. A lot of great info. on that post like avoiding “feature creep”, I'm always feature creeping and I never get anything done; I look forward to more posts like that

More creative than funny, but still awesome. 5 out of 5 stars. To both Phil and Matt, I run a Web site for a college radio station (linked from my name), and after using Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator, Fireworks gets the win. It's so much easier to use for graphics generation, and my experience has been that it can be some 20-30 percent more efficient than Photoshop at compressing photo JPGs at the same quality level and resolution. Crazy, I know.

Hey Matthew,First of all congrats for the amazing traffic success that you have had! (Makes me envious, at least a little bit)Just wanted to say sorry to you on behalf of what happened to you here in India, I guess its truly our fault!I just wanted to point out that whatever has happened to you is truly a correct representation of India and as an Indian entrepreneur I would love to tell you that we are working on out country...We are working on making it better and getting things done in the right form!And the only thing which you will will realize you found annoying was lack of organization...But then, there are certain ways to deal with it and (rickshaw is not one of them)...It takes some preparation when you are going to some other country, right?Politely, I would like to apologize but also advise that you could have done a little bit of research before going to India, sure the luxuries are 4 times cheaper her, you would still have to pay for them...No offense please...Derogatory remarks make it all bad...Lakshay

This is so pretentious it makes me want to puke. the self congratulation. the circle jerk of it all. the same people congratulating each other. then when one guy stands up and says "hey, some of this stuff is old" etc. its then just flippantly passed off as "funny" as opposed to "educational". i'm willing to bet the point of this was to portray the 0at as having some divine insight as to the state of the web. this is obvious by the aforementioned reciprocal mental masturbation going back and forth in the same old boring crowd here.

mikey
writes on 21/7/08

I agree with the above poster except that no article is more self congratulatory than this one: 'How I Almost Got in Wired Magazine ... Twice'.Barf.

Isn't it ALWAYS cloudy in Seattle? =)Loved your drawing-thing, but your stupid "created by Matthew Inman of whatever.com" thing kept GETTING IN THE WAY. Jeez. We get the point.That India post was hilarious, BTW. Those dang Indians, they're so dang FUNNY...Especially with their little spit-corners. =)